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How to delete all lines that do NOT contain a certain word in Vim?
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In vim I can delete all lines that contain the word "price" with this How can I delete all lines that do NOT contain the word "price"?
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:g /price/d
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You can use to delete every line that doesn't contain "price" As answered below, is an alias to . this is equivalent to
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